Worship Reflections from September 2025
28 September 2025
LOVE & MONEY MUC Fellowship@10, 28 September 2025 Alison Sampson, reflecting on Luke 16:19-31 A few years ago, my colleague Rev Nguyễn Hữu Trí took a group of young people from a nearby church on a trip to Vietnam. They planned to visit Christian communities aligned with factory workers, street kids and people addicted to heroin, both to build connections and to witness the gospel being embodied in these contexts. As Trí tells it, the young people turned up at the…
14 September 2025
THREE INVITATIONS INTO JOY MUC Fellowship@10, 14 September 2025 Alison Sampson, reflecting on Luke 15:1-10ff ‘Would you like a drink?’ I asked our friend Carl. ‘No thanks,’ he said. ‘Is that an Anglo no, or a Lebanese no?’ I asked. Our friend Carl is from a Lebanese family. In Lebanon, if someone offers you a drink, it is the height of rudeness to say yes straightaway. It might be 36 degrees, you might have walked across Beirut to get there,…
7 September 2025
MY GRANDPARENTS’ BREAKFAST TABLE Alison Sampson, MUC Fellowship@10, 7 September 2025 (Psalm 1) My grandparents’ breakfast room opened off the kitchen. It had a brown sideboard, brown scratchy chairs and a brown shag pile carpet. Whenever my sister and I stayed with them, we participated in their morning ritual. First, we held hands and said grace. Then my sister and I would gobble up our breakfasts while our grandparents were still fussing around assembling theirs. Cornflakes. Sultanas. Bran. A bit…